Brighton make club record signing of Luka Vuskovic for £46m

Brighton They have agreed a club record £46m deal Tottenham Hotspur For Croatia defender Luka Vuskovic.

Brighton He had two bids rejected for Vuskovic last month.

However, they have now agreed a transfer fee that could take the total fee to £50m.

The 19-year-old will undergo a medical at the end of Croatia’s World Cup campaign.

They will play Portugal in the last-32 on Friday morning at dawn UK time.

Born in Split, Vusković came through his country club Hajduk’s academy at the age of 16 as the youngest player in Croatia’s top league and became the club’s youngest goalscorer.

He made a deal with Tottenham He joined the club in September 2023 in 2025.

Although he is yet to make his Spurs debut, Vuskovic made 30 appearances on loan at German club Hamburg last season, scoring six goals in the Bundesliga and is now one of the top-rated young centre-backs in Europe.

He replaces Jan Paul van Heck in Fabian Hürzeler’s team.

Interestingly, Van Heck is moving in the opposite direction at the back. Tottenham With one year remaining, the Netherlands international agreed to pay £52m Brighton Contract.